Selected Poetry.

Evening Star, Issue 3637, 19 October 1874, Page 3

Selected Poetry.

THE AYRSHIRE COW AND HER PRODUCE. The value affixed to the form and points of a cow by the dairy farmers is incalculable, and they rarely commit a mistake in purchasing. It may not be out of place to insert the following ingenious v?rs ification of the points of the Ayrshire cow which appeared in a Scotch paper many years ago. : They are based on a document published under the authority of the Ayrshire Agricultural Association Would you know how to judge of a good Ayr- - shire cow? Attend to the lesson you’ll hear from me now : Jler head should be short, and her muzzle good i size-; ■ Her nose should be fine between muzzle and eyes; : •' -P.:’. ' : . JEler teyes full and lively; forehead Sample and ' tride j •• Horns wide, looking up, and curved inwards beside ; Her neek should be a fine, tapering wedge, And free from loose jskin on the'undermost c~-. edge SEouldbe fine where ’tas joined with the seat of the brain; Long and straight Upper line,'without hollow ■ ’ 'ormane; Shoulder blades should be thin where they . • meet at the top'; Let her brisket be light, no resemble a crop, Her fore-part recede like the lash of a whip, resepable the bow of a ship; Her back short' and straight, with the spine well defined, , Especially where back, neck, and shoulders are joined; Her ribs short and arched, like the ribs of a __barge; Body deep at the flanks, and milk-veins full and large; Pelvis long, broad, and straight, and in some measure flat; Hock-bones, white apart, and not bearing much fftt £ Her "thighs deep and broad, neither rqundad qr flat; Her- tail long and fine, and joined square with her back; Milk vessels capacious, and forward extending, Ahe hinder part broad, and to body fast pendmg; °f her udder should just form a plane, Apq all the four teats equal thickness attain; Iheir length not exceeding two inches or three; Jhey should hang to the earth perpendicularly; Their matance apart when they’re viewed from WiUindude about half of the udder you’ll find ; Afld; when viewed from the side, they will have - at each end - As much of the udder as ’tween them is penned; Her legs should be short, and the bones fine and clean, The jpoints of the latter being quite firm and, Skin soft and elastic as the cushions of air Arid covered aibover with short woolly hair • The colOrs-preferied are confined to a few— ’ Either brown and white chequered, or all brpwn will do; The weight of the*animal leaving the stall. Should be about five hundred, sinking'offaL